Studs Terkel Quotes
I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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It was once people began taking my picture every time I left the house - because it's an easy fashion shot - that I started getting a bit weirder about going out without any makeup on, and I think that's when I started wearing foundation every day.
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I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.
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Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.
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Yes, I'm known as the most technical fighter in the world, and I'm going to keep that as my brand.
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I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
